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Monday, August 15, 2011

Reaching the past despite the present

My main history posts yesterday and today are on my personal blog. GeoCurrents' Demic atlas project looks at a new mapping project, while Maps & myopia looks at the way that constructs such as maps and institutional structures affect our thinking. This is pretty important for all those interested in history at whatever level.

I often speak of the past as a far country. We have to break through, and that's so hard because of the way our own thinking is conditioned.

I wondered if any of my readers have their own experiences of times when they suddenly realised that their conditioned thinking was blocking their understanding of the past they were looking at? How did you overcome it?

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Blog Objectives - and a warning to readers

This blog aims to consolidate and extend New England historical material originally carried on the main New England Australia site. With time, I hope that it will develop into a living history of New England.

Readers should be warned, however, that the original posts are work in progress. This means that ealier posts may have been overtaken by later research or thought. I have to go through and do some updates and cross-links, but this is a slow process.